[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

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• Centauri Dreams notes the possible discovery of Proxima Centauri c.


• D-Brief notes the discovery of a second circumbinary planet in the Kepler-47 system.


• Far Outliers notes the Union reaction to the civil war battle of Shiloh.
  
• Mark Graham shares a link to an article abstract examining the impact of call centres on social upgrading in South Africa.


• io9 notes plans for closer integration between the movie and television properties of the MCU.


• JSTOR Daily explains how Florida got its name.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the similarities between the Notre Dame fire and the destruction of the National Museum of Brazil last year.


• The LRB Blog notes the appeal of Gothic architecture.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting that, in the United States, negative effects of the China Shock had concluded a decade ago.


• The NYR Daily looks at Trump's agitprop.


• Drew Rowsome interviews actor Nathaniel Bacon on the occasion of his appearance in a new Sky Gilbert show.


• Peter Rukavina shares a map of light pollution on PEI.


• Starts With A Bang shares a plan for reducing light pollution in an urbanizing world.


• Window on Eurasia complains of a creeping annexation of Belarus by Russia.